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...mirror earthward, Discovery had to fly with its nose forward and pitched downward. When it passed over the Maui facility on its 37th orbit Wednesday, the shuttle was instead flying backward with its nose pitched slightly upward. A NASA spokesman sheepishly called the mistake a "ground- based accounting error...
...Chuck finished him [a Druze militia man] with the classic knife attack. He grabbed the man's collar and twisted hard, dragging him downward, choking, with his throat exposed. The movement almost drags the throat onto the knife, and Chuck cut both the artery and the windpipe in a single...
...Henri Rousseau show at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (through June 4) alters one's view of his work, as retrospectives are meant to--but downward. It is, however, a delight to visit. One could write a little dictionary of received ideas about this engaging "primitive." It would begin with his nickname, the Douanier. (He was not, as MOMA's excellent catalog stresses, a customs inspector, but a much lowlier form of bureaucratic life, a gabelou, or toll collector.) The dictionary would go through a whole list of legendary things that Rousseau...
...federal ministries and 23 state committees. Those entities own and operate 50,000 enterprises and dominate a state-run labor union network of 132 million employees. The tentacles of central planning are duplicated in each of the nation's 15 union republics and 20 autonomous republics, and extend downward to the oblast (province) and raion (local administrative unit) levels...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has argued that the Pentagon needs all its funds to counter heavy Soviet spending on weapons. But Schultze pointed out that in the past two years the Central Intelligence Agency has revised its estimates on the growth of Soviet military expenditures sharply downward. "To some extent," said Schultze, "the U.S. defense buildup has been based on a myth that we were falling behind the Soviets in most areas." He also complained that the Pentagon is building too many duplicative weapons designed to carry out the same mission. The Air Force, for example, has five major development...